Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I have been sick for over a week with the flu/bronchitis. I hope I start feeling better soon.)-: I hate being sick! SO much to do and not feeling good is not a good thing at all.Before I got sick however I put down a yard of pea gravel and a yard of compost. So I was happy about that. I have my bed garden pretty well done except for a few more odds and ends of plants. I bought three pretty red azaleas and I am excited to see them bloom. Should be pretty against the blue house. I also put an old grain feeder in that grouping. I planted some mondo grass in it because I wanted something that was spikey and would be green all year. I have a overabundance of the stuff so why not? I know what some people might say. Living where I do it makes sense to use what will work instead of trying to put things in that won't. Mondo grass loves me. Hard to believe that 20+ years ago I got a little clump from my Great Aunt who passed away last November at age 105. She would be laughing to see how well it did here!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

I found some old light bulbs, (they are large, about 12 inches tall.) and decided to try to make something out of them. I have seen them used as vases etc. I wanted to do something for Valentines Day.

I had a hard time trying to get the top off. It is ceramic. I finally decided I would need to drill it. So I got the ceramic drill bit on the drill and drilled away. Drill Baby, Drill...you know the saying...(-:

I bought the vintage valentine on eBay. I also got the rubber stamps on eBay and stamped my own tags. Amazing what you can find on that place. I typed in light bulb and *poof* there was a light bulb valentine just for me...(-: Of course waiting till it got here was hard because I couldn't do anything until I had that valentine in my hand. Then I got creative.(-:

I couldn't figure out how to stand the valentine up inside until my husband suggested sticking the pick of hearts in and glueing it to that. I decided glueing it to that would be to hard and came up with the shredded paper idea instead...but I did like his idea of the pick standing outside the light bulb. So...here is the finished project. Happy early Valentines Day!(-:

The tag says "You Light Up My Life" The other one is a picture of a light bulb incase you can't see it.(-: Of course you can click on the pictures to make them bigger if you want too(-: